PARK Sangyoung

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1	5

World Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	19	6
2018	Wuxi, CHN	5	2
2017	Leipzig, GER	34	9
2014	Kazan, RUS	10	2

Asian Games

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2018	Indonesia	2	3

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Tokyo, JPN	9	2
2018	Bangkok, THA	13	4
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	17	1

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2020/2021	1 x 10th	1 x 6th
2019/2020	1 x 2nd, 1 x 10th, 1 x 11th	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th, 1 x 17th
2018/2019	1 x 1st, 2 x 9th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 7th, 1 x 11th
2017/2018	1 x 1st, 1 x 6th, 1 x 10th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
2016/2017	1 x 1st, 2 x 9th, 1 x 17th	1 x 1st, 2 x 5th, 1 x 6th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual
2019/2020	1 x 12th, 1 x 34th
2018/2019	2 x 9th, 1 x 12th
2017/2018	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 21st
2016/2017	1 x 5th, 2 x 33rd

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019/2020	Epee Team	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN
1	2018/2019	Epee Individual	World Cup	Paris, FRA
1	2017/2018	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Doha, QAT
1	2017/2018	Epee Individual	World Cup	Bern, SUI
1	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
1	2016/2017	Epee Individual	World Cup	Buenos Aires, ARG
1	2016/2017	Epee Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
2	2019/2020	Epee Individual	World Cup	Heidenheim, GER
2	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
3	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Bern, SUI
3	2017/2018	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Cali, COL
3	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Vancouver, BC, CAN

Icon of Positivity [given to him after he defeated Geza Imre of Hungary 15-14 in the epee final at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, despite trailing 14-10 with less than three minutes remaining], Crazy Fencer [because he is only interested in fencing]. (SportsDeskOnline, 06 May 2021; Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 16 Sep 2020)

Watching movies, photography. (imnews.imbc.com, 01 Dec 2016)

Athlete

Korea National Sport University , Seoul, KOR

Korean

Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall [Seoul, KOR]

Ku Gyo-dong [national], KOR; Chang Tae-Suk [club], KOR

Right (fie.org, 01 Jun 2014)

He suffered an injury to his knee in the individual epee final at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, where he claimed silver. (SportsDeskOnline, 06 May 2021; Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 30 Jul 2019; news1.kr, 19 Aug 2018)

He required surgery after damaging the cruciate ligament in his right knee at a competition in March 2015. He was sidelined for 11 months. (Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 16 Sep 2020; spotv.net, 25 Jun 2016)

He sustained an ankle injury at the 2013 World Junior Championships in Porec, Croatia. (ifeeltong.org, 26 Mar 2013)

He damaged the cartilage in his right knee when he was in the 11th grade at high school. (munhwa.com, 04 Nov 2014)

He began fencing in grade eight of middle school in Jinju, Republic of Korea. (idomin.com, 07 Apr 2015)

The fencing coach at middle school encouraged him to get involved in the sport, and epee was the only event that he was able to take up. "My parents were very against it because they didn't understand why I was playing a sport that they had never seen. Since they were so against it, I once left home. As a young kid, I was just playing for fun and they didn't want to let me, so I got mad and, to persuade them, I wrote lists of why I had to fence." (Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 16 Sep 2020; koreajoongangdaily.joins.com, 21 May 2020; sportsq.co.kr, 12 Feb 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and become a coach after retiring from competition. (redbull.com, 29 Sep 2020; Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 16 Sep 2020)

Winning gold in individual epee at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 29 Jul 2019)

Soviet and Russian fencer Pavel Kolobkov. (Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 29 Jul 2019)

Korean fencer Jung Jin-Sun, and his father. (Subusu Sports YouTube channel, 30 Jul 2019; mydaily.co.kr, 29 Nov 2018)

"When I get stabbed, I kind of get angry." (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com, 21 May 2020)

He participated as a torch bearer in the torch relay for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. (mydaily.co.kr, 29 Nov 2018)

He received the Excellent Athlete Award at the 2017 Korean Sports Awards in recognition of the gold medal he won in individual epee at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (newsen.com, 22 Feb 2017)

He was named the 2016 Fencer of the Year by the Korean Fencing Federation. (view.asiae.co.kr, 21 Dec 2016)